Word Meanings - FORESTALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention

Additional info about word: FORESTALL

To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Burrill. Syn. -- To anticipate; monopolize; engross. (more info) on the way to the market by buying them beforehand, from forstal obstruction, AS. forsteal, foresteall, prop., a placing one's 1. To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. 2. To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance. An ugly serpent which forestalled their way. Fairfax. But evermore those damsels did forestall Their furious encounter. Spenser. To be forestalled ere we come to fall. Shak. Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge. Rush. 3. To deprive; -- with of. All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day! Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORESTALL)

• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• expect
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Bespeak
• Betoken
• foreorder
• forestall
• provide
• indicate
• evidence

Related words: (words related to FORESTALL)

• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• INTERCEPTER
  One who, or that which, intercepts. Shak.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• FORETASTE
  A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
• FORECASTER
  One who forecast. Johnson.
• EXPECT
  1. To wait for; to await. Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak. 2. To look for ; to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look
• EXPECTORANT
  Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• INEXPECTED
  Unexpected.